Yamaha PSR9000
The PSR9000 includes a total of 811 sounds, vocal harmonizer and hundreds of professionally recorded and arranged musical styles to either play along with or amend as the mood takes you.
Suppose that you can't find the ideal groove amongst the hundreds of on board styles, no problem, the PSR9000 provides up to 120 "Flash" memory locations and the groove and dynamics function allows precise control over all the subtleties of the groove allowing you to "shift" the musical emphasis.
Yamaha's unique "live" voice feature allows you to experience a new dimension in sound - sampled sounds that are virtually indistinguishable from the real thing. All voices have extra long sampling times to ensure a natural delay including the onboard samples of 16 drum kits which can be customized to your own requirements.
A 16 track sequencer boasts a huge recording capacity of 38,000 notes and provides two recording modes: a quick record option for simple speedy recording and a more sophisticated multi-track record option.
The superb vocal harmonizing function is a singer's dream. Your voice will be perfectly harmonized and enhanced - choose your own backing singers from any of the 59 options. If you want to use the PSR9000 as a karaoke then simply plug the "video out" connection to your TV and lyrics from karaoke song files can be seen (and sung) by all the party........!
The PSR9000 has it all when it comes to on board fidelity. It is equipped with a two-way stereo speaker system with each speaker mounted inside a wooden cabinet with a large bass port, this ensures that the powerful dynamics and subtle overtones are faithfully reproduced. This system can of course be overridden when an external PA is used.
A large backlit LCD positioned just above the centre of the keyboard makes using the 9000 simplicity itself. The on screen guidance system leads you step by step through the various set-up options and as the PSR9000 becomes more familiar there is a direct access button which allows you to jump instantly to any menu with one touch operation.
Overview
Should you decide to lift the PSR9000 you'll be struck by the weight.......! It weighs 22.5kg. This is partly due to its solid wooden speaker enclosures - the speakers are powerful - driven by a 56W (28W per channel) built in amplifier and each having separate woofer, tweeter and bass reflex ports. The keyboard itself measures 111.4 cm x 46.5 cm x 18.3 cm high (without the music stand attached). Despite its size, the 9000 features a 61 note touch and aftertouch sensitive keyboard enabling you to add extra expression to sounds by pressing down on the keys whilst they are already held down. To the left of the keyboard are pitch bend, modulation wheel and controls for microphone input level and level indicator.
Controls and Features
The flight panel of the PSR9000 is packed with controls, and colour coding has been implemented to assist in navigating. Controls are sensibly laid out and are grouped into similar categories, with the more common features close at hand.
The style banks or style manager consists of 18 buttons, arranged as 2 groups of 9. From here you can choose either from the preset style groups (16 beat, 8 beat, dance, swing and jazz, R&B, country, march, latin and waltz, ballroom) or from the 8 user programmable banks I to VIII. There's also a handy disk direct button which allows you to play from a style directly from disk, without having to store it in the PSR9000. The user programmable banks consist of "flash" memory which can store up to 1.8MB of styles at once. The number of styles you can store in the user banks will of course depend on the size of each style, but cannot exceed 120 styles in total. The PSR9000 comes with 125 preset styles, 85 factory styles loaded already into the flash memory and another 66 styles on disk. Note that if you intend to replace the flash styles, make sure you have backed them up since the only way to retrieve them once they are replaced is from disk.
Below the style banks are the auto accompaniment performance controls. There are four style variation buttons (A, B, C, D) located immediately above the keyboard - the four fill-in and breaks are separate and positioned to the right of these. The start/stop button is further right, with sync stop and start directly above it. Above the style variation buttons are a choice of 3 different introductions, plus a tap tempo button, whilst above the four fill-in/break buttons are a choice of 3 endings and a fade in/out button. Finally in this are there are 3 buttons for calling up disk/scsi operations, function menu and midi functions. The keyboard transpose (+/-) buttons are positioned below these and directly above the start/stop accompaniment controls.
The main LCD display has two columns of 5 buttons running alongside the display. Below the display are convenient up/down buttons with a data dial to the right. There are also page control (back and next) buttons above the dial, which again help to navigate nested menu screens more efficiently. A number of controls are situated either side of the display panel, to the left these are sound creator (sampling or custom voice), digital recording (this refers to song, style or multipad recording), mixing console (effects, filters and eq or tuning). The multipads are in a compact group to the lower left of the display area. Those controls situated right of the display panel include voice effects (touch response, sustain, dsp, harmony/echo and mono/poly) and navigation controls (the data dial, exit and page back or next). The tempo button lies immediately to the left of the data dial, useful as the dial provides an easy method of changing tempo values quickly. There's also a small LCD contrast knob and demo button at the top right corner.
The right section of the PSR9000 contains the voice banks, part select, registration memories, music database controls and vocal harmonizer. The music database is a superb feature to the PSR9000 and provides over 600 predefined style and voice setups to suit a variety of musical genres. By simply pressing the musical database button and choosing a category such as great pop songs, smooth ballads, swing and jazz or top hits, you can then select from a variety of popular song styles. For copyright reasons the names of these are changed slightly, but it's easy to spot the songs they refer to. For example selecting "Great Pop Songs" and then choosing "Called to Say" would provide a suitable style and voice settings for Stevie Wonder's "I just called to say I loved you". Others include "White and Pale", "I do everything" and "Proud of Mary".... you can have great fun figuring out what original songs they refer to! You can also search the database for a tempo range or keyword.
You can also create your own musical database setups, but before you do make sure that you save and backup the contents of the factory database. Since the database is stored in flash ram, the present data is replaced when new data is entered.
Below the right speaker are a group of 16 buttons for accessing the voice banks. These are grouped into piano, electric/electronic piano, organ, accordion, guitar, strings, trumpet, brass, saxophone (reed), flute, choir & pad, synthesizer, percussion, XG, Organ flutes and Custom voice. On pressing any of these banks, a list of voices will appear on the main display. If there are more than 10 voices in the bank, you can choose the next page using the pages denoted above the buttons below the display. The PSR9000 features three right keyboard parts (R1, R2 and R3) making it possible to layer up to 3 individual voices together. You can also split the keyboard, with voice L assigned to the left of the split point and voices R1 to R3 to the right. It is possible to switch on or off any of the parts L to R3 during performance, whilst a row of buttons above toggle between the voice parts that any voice changes will apply to (such as changing voice or levels). The Left Hold button allows you to hold any note or chord played with voice L , even when you release your fingers from the keys. An organ flutes feature enables you to create your own organ sounds by adjusting digital drawbars. In addition to combinations of footages, you can choose from different waveforms (sine or vintage), simulated rotary speaker speed, vibrato, attack sounds and digital effects. You can create and store up to 10 user organ flute voices. There are an additional 10 factory organ flute presets to choose from.
Since there are so many voice and style parameters that can be adjusted to achieve a desired sound the PSR9000 is equipped with registration memories. Once you have chosen your desired voices and styles, adjusted volume levels, effects and performance parameters, you can store the current setup to any one of over 500 registration memories. These are arranged as 8 instant access buttons in 64 banks. There are two buttons provided to increment or decrement the bank number and of course to memorize or recall any registration. A freeze function prevents the registration memory from changing the style/accompaniment during performance. You can also choose from 4 one touch settings for any of the factory styles, or create up to 4 of your own for each style. Similar to registrations these call up voices and voice parameters for the style chosen.
A handy pair of buttons to the right of the part select controls enable you to change the upper keyboard section octave. Finally the last rightmost column of controls are for the built in vocal harmonizer function.
Rear Panel features
The PSR9000 has several inputs and outputs on its rear panel. There are two pairs of midi input and output connectors (Midi A and Midi B) giving you up to 32 part control plus a to host connector for serial connection to computers without midi. It also offers a composite video output for displaying the contents of midi songfile lyrics on an external monitor (great for entertainment and karaoke). For external storage the external scsi connector enables you to connect a range of removable storage devices, hard drives or cd-rom devices. For entering alphanumerical data more easily you can also connect a PS/2 PC compatible keyboard to the PSR9000. There are 2 foot switch and one foot volume connectors, whilst audio input and outputs are plentiful. Four line outputs (Left/Right plus 2 sub outputs), left and right auxiliary inputs and also stereo left and right loop sends, for connecting an external effects or to use with a mixing desk if required.
Voice Features
Amongst the 811 sounds of the PSR9000 are some incredible Sweet, Live and Cool voices. The Sweet voices implement extra long samples of real instruments to capture the expression and natural vibrato of the real thing. The PSR9000 features sweet trumpet, sweet clarinet, sweet flute, sweet tenor sax, sweet soprano sax, sweet alto sax, sweet trombone and sweet pan flute. The Live voices are stereo sampled for accurate reproduction of presence and resonance and include Live Nylon guitar, Live Strings, Live Vocal and Live Gospel Choir. There are also some incredible new Live drumkits, Live Standard and Live Funk featuring 4 layer sampling of individual drum sounds and extra long sampling of cymbals and toms for even greater realism. The Cool voices reproduce electrically amplified instruments such as Jazz Guitar, Jazz Organ and Vintage Guitar with amazing warmth and harmonic content. There are also many more including an octave piano, steirisch accordion, orchestral brass, classical flute and some delightful synthesizer lead and pad sounds. In the percussion section you can find an exciting new Arabic drum kit, together with Contemporary, Rock, Jazz, Electro, Analog , Dance, brush and Symphonic kits.
Styles
The styles on the PSR9000 are professionally programmed and extremely versatile and varied. Each style has 3 separate introduction sections, 4 main variations, 4 breaks or fills plus 3 different endings. Many of the styles are held in flash memory, meaning that you can replace them with either your own or with new styles (up to 120). An option to fade in or out the accompaniment during playing exists with just one button press.
Digital Effects
Awesome is the only way to describe the effects section of the PSR9000. With 12 blocks of simultaneous DSP effects and 5 of them featuring 164 preset effects, the sonic power of the PSR9000 is incredible. Some of the new DSP effects include dual rotor speakers, stereo amplifier simulation, tube distortion and many multi effect presets. In addition to the DSP effects there are 29 different reverb types to choose from, 25 chorus effects and 17 harmony and echo effects.
Multi-Pads
There are no shortage of multipad riffs and sound effects on offer. The multipads allow you to add embellishments to your performance by triggering one shot prerecorded musical riffs, sounds and effects, or even adding looping sequences and arpeggios in synchronization with the accompaniment and tempo. Some of the multipad sounds are also pitch controlled by the auto accompaniment, so that you can use them to enhance the accompaniment as extra tracks. There are 60 banks of multipad effects, each bank having 4 effects. Some of the factory effects include Live drum riffs, Arabic Percussion Riffs, Vocal Scats, Flamenco Guitar and even Xmas effects! 58 of the 60 banks can be replaced with your own multipad recordings as they are held in flash memory. As with all flash memory presets though, you are advised to keep a backup of any existing data before replacing it.
Song recording and playback
The PSR9000 can play Yamaha Disk Orchestra files, Pianosoft type files, and both format 0 and 1 midifiles in GM/XG or XF format (provided they have the .MID extension). If the song has lyrics encoded (such as karaoke files) then these can be displayed on the LCD screen or even on an external TV monitor. It is also possible to set which of the song tracks are used for chord detecting in producing the harmony/echo feature (for playing along live with the song) and which track or part is used for the vocal harmonizer data. Also the mixer console is available during playback to adjust volume levels on each track, panning, filters and other mixer settings. The PSR9000 also features a sophisticated song recorder, with a choice of step or realtime recording. You can choose between quick recording, or for more sophisticated multitrack compositions the multitrack recording option. To record a song on the PSR9000, all you do is press the digital recording button (left of the main display). A choice of using the song creator, style creator or multipad creator appears on the display. Press the button alongside the song creator option and next choose whether you want to record a new song or work on the current song chosen. Choose the recording method, that is Quick or Multitrack recording. You can always record in quick mode and then at a later stage change to multi-track recording for adding more tracks and performing more sophisticated editing.
A useful feature of the PSR9000 is that it allows you to start recording your keyboard performance data before starting the accompaniment. To do this you choose the Rubato option, as indicated on the screen. Recording begins as soon as you start to play and stops when you press the start/stop button or ending. Since the PSR9000 records the song to memory as opposed directly to disk, you then save the song to disk before exiting the recording mode. Simply press the NEXT button after recording the song to display the file save screen. Finally hit EXIT to leave recording mode.
Multitrack recording gives you freedom to choose individual voices for up to all of the 16 tracks available. You can choose whether or not to record accompaniment, or replace accompaniment tracks after recording with your own performances. Once the tracks are setup for playback and recording, a press of the NEXT button takes you to recording screen where you can choose voices, metronome, style if required and even practice before recording using the rehearsal mode. To begin recording either use the start/stop button or sync start to have recording begin as soon as you touch a key.
Advanced song creating options
There are many options available when multitrack recording, such as punch in and out, song editing features such as quantization, track mixing or deleting, note transposing for individual tracks and adjusting setup data (changing effects, levels and voice parameters). Punch in and out enables you to specify which measure in the song you want to begin recording from, whilst punch out specifies the measure that recording will finish. This is useful if you need to replace just a short section within a song, without having to record the entire track again.
From the recording screen as outlined above, you can use the next and back buttons to move to a number of different screen displays or pages. These include edit, set up data and save/delete. In the editing screen you can choose from quantizing the notes, mixing tracks together or note shift (transposing notes on individual tracks). Simply choose the option you require using the designated up and down buttons, and set the options for the chosen operation at the bottom of the screen. For instance if you choose Quantize you can select the track to be quantized, the note size (quantizing resolution) and the strength of quantization applied. Under track mixing you can choose up to two individual tracks to be mixed onto a separate different track. This is useful when you are running out of tracks to free up extra tracks for recording. Note shifting allows you to shift the notes on individual tracks in semitone increments, up to 2 octaves higher or lower.
The set up screen gives you the ability to assign one of 4 DSP blocks to any of the song tracks, change the song tempo and call up the on screen mixing console for changing a wide range of parameters including volume levels, filtering, effect depth and type, tuning, voice and also output. Since there are 4 individual audio outputs on the rear of the PSR9000, its possible to assign certain tracks to their own outputs, useful for feeding into a multitrack recorder.
Step recording makes it possible to enter individual notes with precise timing. By first selecting the note length required, any notes recorded are then assigned the chosen note length. You can also choose the velocity for the next note entered or delete the last note entered. As notes are entered they appear on a scrolling list. It is possible also to enter a variety of different events, such as program changes, controller changes, pitch bend, and even edit or copy multiple events at once. The manual does not explain how to enter rests in the step recording mode, in fact you do it the same way as entering a note except that you don't hold any of the keys down whilst pressing the note value (resolution) buttons. You can also change note values (dotted and triplet) using the button (H) to the right of the display. Not only can you enter melodies in step time, you can also enter auto accompaniment chords. This feature is useful when arranging backing tracks, to ensure precise timing of chord changes, especially if you need a few moments to find a particular chord.
Also you can also plug in an external PC type keyboard into the PSR9000 which may assist you in step editing.
Style Creator
Because of the increasing complexity of Yamaha's styles, the PSR9000 offers you with 3 choices of style creation and editing.
Easy Edit
Easy editing comprises three steps to creating a new style from any existing style. These are: Style Assembly, Groove and Dynamics and Revoicing. The first step of Style Assembly enables you to assemble a new style by combining different sections and parts of other preset styles. First you choose the section of the new style that you want to change, for example intro A, main part A or ending A, and also the length (in measures) of the new section. Fill patterns and breaks are fixed to one measure and cannot be changed. The next stage is to choose a new section from another pre-programmed style in the PSR9000. You can also select which parts from the chosen section (e.g. rhythm 1, bass, chord 1) will be included in the new style. You repeat this until you are happy with your new mixture of style parts and then store it to memory. The second step allows you to revoice the parts in each section - assigning new instruments to the style. You can also alter the total volume and default tempo for the style, individual levels for each part and turn parts on or off. The third step enables you apply changes to the rhythmic feel of the style. Groove parameters change the timing of individual sections of the style. You can apply groove parameters to alter the individual beat timing, produce a swing feel by shifting the timing of back beats and even delay certain beats. You can even apply changes to the dynamics or velocities of the notes according to the timing.
New Style Assembly
This option will allow you to create a new style from scratch, as opposed to starting with a preset style. Before embarking on creating a style from scratch, its worth understanding what a style is composed of. Each section of the style is a short musical phrase, played in a single key. In most cases this should be CM7, but the introductions and endings of the style can contain chord changes if you wish. When the accompaniment plays the style, it loops the chosen section of the style continuously. As you play a chord in the accompaniment section of the keyboard, the psr intelligently transposes the notes in the section of the style which is playing so to produce the correct chordal backing. Since the PSR9000 has to derive any chord you might decide to play in the accompaniment section from the original style, it is essential that the style is recorded in a single key and with the correct harmony and scales. By default this should be CM7, although you can change this if you require.
Full Edit mode
In full edit mode the first screen is the basic settings. Here you choose the section that you want to program (e.g. intro A, intro B, main A etc...), the length in measures of the section, the time signature (you can choose from 2/4, 3/4, 4/4 or 5/4) and the default tempo for the style. There is also an option to copy parts from other sections and parts of the same style, or even another style if required. Pressing the part record option button changes the bottom of the display to the part recording screen. Using the buttons below the display you can choose parts in the style, select record, play or muting for the part or delete selected part(s). Once you have chosen the record track and selected an appropriate voice, press start/stop and start recording. During recording percussion instruments on the rhythm tracks, its possible to delete certain sounds by holding the rhythm clear button whilst pressing the key on the keyboard corresponding to the percussion instrument. Note that before recording a bass, chord, pad or phrase track, any prerecorded data needs to be cleared first.
Using the back and next buttons you can choose different option screens. Pressing next will take you to the setup screen, where you can change the voice(s) assigned to style parts, copy parts from other sections or styles. The mixing console can be recalled when on this page to change individual voice levels, panning, effect depth and other voice parameters.
A further press of the next button takes you to the edit screen. Using the assigned up and down buttons you can select from quantizing, velocity changing, copying measures in the style, clearing measures in the style, removing control events or duplicate notes. As you move between each option, the lower section of the display reflects the options available for the item selected.
Pressing next yet again switches to the parameter edit screen, where the source root chord can be changed from CM7, along with other parameters related to the way that the PSR transposes the notes in each part from the chords played. These parameters are useful in preventing certain parts, for example bass instruments from playing too high in pitch when certain chords are played.
Step Recording
As with song recording, step recording can be applied to recording styles. The principles are essentially the same for song recording. This feature is unbeatable for producing complex techno and dance styles where it is difficult or impossible to play the notes in realtime.
Multi-pad creator
The PSR9000 features some 240 factory programmed multi pad setups. Although 2 of these banks are dedicated to midi events, the remaining 58 can be edited or recorded with your own data. As the multipad data is maintained in flash memory, existing data will be overwritten so its worth ensuring you have a backup of the existing data before proceeding.
When you press the digital recording button, choose Multi Pad creator from the option menu. The recording process is quite simple, since you only record one track per pad. There are 3 options in the main screen menu, recording, clearing and copying. When recording is selected, the lower area of the display displays the pad bank and pad number chosen for recording or editing. Buttons are assigned left and right of the display for starting recording, storing the pad data, naming the bank, step recording and selecting the options from the menu. When recording a pad, you can choose to enable chord match. This cause the note data recorded to be transposed to the accompaniment section when played back. Just as in style recording, using this feature requires that you record the notes of the C major seventh scale only. You can also enable repeat, which allows the pad data to loop indefinitely until the pad stop button is pressed in performance.
Mixing Console
The PSR9000 has a full screen mixing console providing easy access to parameters for voice and accompaniment. The console displays several parameters for 8 sections simultaneously. At the top of the display are selectors for different groups of parameters, selected with the buttons either side. For instance the first page shows onscreen graphic controls for adjusting volume level, panning right or left and equalization at high and low frequencies. You can use the buttons either side of the display to select the required parameter and then adjust it using the data dial. There are pages for filters, tuning, effect depth, effect type, master eq, voice number and line output settings. The effect type settings enable you to choose different dsp effects and then make fine adjustments to individual dsp parameters such as reverberation time, diffusion coefficient, delay and cutoff frequencies. There is also a choice of preset and user graphic equalizer settings, each with five bands of adjustment (each band has adjustable frequency and Q factor). Line output settings give you the choice of sending certain parts to different outputs, for example you could direct the accompaniment through outputs 1 and 2 in stereo, and the keyboard part through outputs 3 and 4. The benefit of this feature is that individual parts or even instruments can be processed and mixed off board or recorded individually.
Disk Drive
The PSR9000 comes with a built in 3 1/2 inch floppy disk drive. There are a variety of disk functions available, these include loading data to flash rom, saving data from flash rom, copying disks and individual files, backing up or restoring flash data, editing files and directories, formatting disks and checking disks. There is also a useful feature for PSR8000 owners to convert 8000 format files to 9000 format. This function is also handy if you wish to install a hard disk previously from a PSR8000 to a 9000. The conversion includes custom styles, songs, chord step and waveform data.
Sampling
Any sound can be sampled from either the mic/line input or loaded as either a wave or aiff file. You can also load PSR8000 wave files. Once you have a sample, you can create an entirely new voice from it (see custom voices). By default the PSR9000 samples at 44.1KHz in 16-bit quality, but you can reduce this down to 11KHz. However reducing the sampling frequency will also reduce the sound quality, since lower sampling frequencies will mean lower bandwidth and a reduction in the high frequency content of the sounds.. As standard the PSR9000 comes with 1MB of sample memory, which gives about 11.8 seconds at 44.1KHz sampling rate. This can be expanded to 65MB using optional SIMM's giving you over 12 minutes at highest quality.
The start of sampling is triggered automatically when the input signal rises above a preset threshold or if the threshold is set below a certain value, sampling is manually achieved by pressing the start button alongside the display. Whilst sampling it is also possible to make use of the DSP's on the PSR9000 (up to 3) so as process the sound being sampled. You can also edit the sampled waveforms to remove any clicks or unwanted bits, set a looping point and tune or normalize the waveform so that the volume is maximized. Finally the sample can be pitched or fixed pitch, so that for example a drum or percussion sound would not alter in pitch as it was played on different keys. A pitched sample will be mapped to the notes of the keyboard, such that it pitch follows the keys played. There are many other clever features such as tuning the waveform to fit a specific tempo, adding waveforms together and exporting as WAV files.
Custom Voices
If........... the 811 voices of the PSR9000 aren't enough for you, you can create your own voices or modify any of the existing ones. The Custom Voice Creator offers a choice of easy editing or full editing. Easy Editing makes it possible to alter the filtering, envelope generator (time variation of volume) and vibrato of any voice. Full Editing gives you total control over the voice, including changing the elements or layers of the voice (each sound on the PSR9000 can contain up to 8 separate elements), powerful envelope generator control for amplitude, filtering and pitch. There are a choice of different filter types with 2 independent filters, low pass, high pass, band pass and band elimination. You have nothing short of a very powerful synthesizer at your fingertips, especially when you consider that you can include your own samples as elements!
Vocal Harmonizer
This amazing feature uses advanced digital signal processing technology to produce vocal harmonies based on a single lead vocal. Plug a microphone into the mic/line input socket and adjust the input level control to avoid clipping or distortion. You can select from a range of vocal harmony types - each harmony type has a wide range of parameters which can be adjusted if required. There are many configurable parameters including a variety of detuning, vocoder and chordal settings. Depending on the harmony effect chosen, it may be necessary to use the accompaniment section or a song track to produce the required harmony effect. The PSR9000 also features an individual DSP dedicated to the vocal harmonizer, a 3 band equalizer, noise gate and compressor.
Other functions
Master tuning, scale tuning, split point and chord fingering configuration, controller assignment including foot switch configuration, registration and voice set parameters, harmony and echo settings, video output configuration, microphone talk settings and utility settings are all included in the function menu..
The degree of configuration available on the PSR9000 is immense, for example the foot switches can be assigned to over 30 different functions. These range from the usual sustain and soft pedal, to selecting style variations, breaks, changing registration and even triggering percussion instruments.
Conclusion
The inclusion of flash rom for the main operating system means that the keyboard shouldn't become outdated for the near future. With over 800 incredible sounds built around 32 MB of wave rom and a healthy 126 note polyphony, the PSR9000 puts many expensive synthesizers to shame. If you ever need a particular sound or effect, the PSR9000 gives you the ability to edit the preset voices or create entirely original ones from your own samples. As well as a built in floppy drive, the optional hard drive gives you fast immediate access to styles, songs and sample data, vital when performing. There's a generous flash memory area and even an external scsi port (compatible with the popular Zip drives) for offline storage of song, style or sample data. The direct disk play feature also comes in useful when previewing large quantities of styles on disk. With 3 intros, 4 parts, 4 fills and breaks and 3 endings, the styles offer plenty of variety and their professional and authentic orchestration will inspire you and lift your creativity. For entertainers there's a useful video output for displaying karaoke lyrics and chord symbols on an external monitor or TV with composite video input and a user programmable music database of over 600 preset song genres. The built in speakers are powerful enough to fill a small venue without external amplification. However for external amplification, the PSR9000 offers an immense choice of outputs, with 4 individual outputs assignable to different parts. The PSR9000 records its songs directly to memory so there's no waiting for slow floppy disks to write the data between tracks.
* 61 keys * touch response ( initial / after ) * 126-note polyphony ( max. ) * 331 voices ( incl. live! voices, cool! voices, sweet voices ) + 480 XG voices + 14 drum kits ( incl. live! kits, arabic kit ) + 2 SFX kits - 32 Mbytes wave ROM * custom voice ( 32 ) * organ flute ( 10 preset + 10 user ) * sampling * SIMM expansion ( 65MB max. ) * multi effects ( 10 blocks - reverb 29 preset + 3 user, chorus 25 preset + 3 user, DSP effect 164 preset, 4 blocks x DSP effect 164 preset + 10 user, DSP effect 84 preset + 10 user ) * vocal harmony ( 49 preset + 10 user ) * mic setup ( incl. 3 bands EQ, noise gate, compressor ) * talk button * mixing console ( incl. 5 bands master EQ, 29 x 2 bands EQ ) * pitch bend and modulation wheels * left hold * 125 preset styles * 85 flash styles ( 120 styles max. or up to 1.8Mbyte ) * style disk direct playback * 3 intro, 4 fill in, 1 break fill in, 4 main section, 3 ending for each style * fade in/out * tap tempo * full keyboard mode * direct access button * 4 one touch settings for each style ( full programmable ) * 616-memory music database ( full programmable ) * 4 multi pads x 60 banks ( incl. scale tune bank ) * song disk direct playback with ultra quick start function * 16 tracks multi track sequencer ( approximately 38,000 notes max. ) * 512 registration memory ( 8 switches x 64 banks with freeze function ) * 10 MIDI setups * 5-language selection ( English, German, French, Spanish, Italian ) * back lit LCD ( 240 x 320 dots ) * 3.5" 2HD/2DD floppy disk drive with disk cache * hard disk ( option, 8Gbytes max. ) * SCSI ( SCSI-2 ) * 2 x IN/OUT * to host terminal * PC keyboard interface * video out ( NTSC/PAL ) * loop send/return jacks * line out ( main L/R, sub 1/2 ) * 56W amplifier ( 28W + 28W ) * power consumption 65W * 1114mm wide x 464.9mm high x 182.5mm deep ( without music stand ) * 22.5kg
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